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The King of UK Cocaine Smugglers - Peter Tod - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The King of UK Cocaine Smugglers - Peter Tod - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

An inside story on how an elite team of Customs Investigators were able to disrupt the drug trafficking activities of various Organised Crime Groups, including one run by Brian Brendan Wright, who was undoubtedly the most prolific supplier of cocaine in UK history. It was an investigation without parallel in UK Drugs Law Enforcement and took six years to complete with assistance from police and customs in Ireland, The Caribbean, Mexico, Venezuela, Australia, France, South Africa and the USA. Eighteen offenders convicted world-wide and sentences totalling 245 years were imposed. A total of 494 kilos of cocaine were seized in the UK with a street value of £61 million. Five trials were conducted and one of them lasted 14 months- the second longest in UK legal history. The King of UK Cocaine Smugglers gives a thrilling account of the methods used to counteract the activities of drug smugglers and bring them to justice.

DKK 120.00
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Private Wojtek - Krystyna Mikula Deegan - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Private Wojtek - Krystyna Mikula Deegan - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The story is told as a fictional account of one of the soldiers, based on the author''s uncle, though including many historical facts.This cub who they called Wojtek (pronounced Vojtek), meaning ''Happy Warrior'' in Polish, was initially adopted as their mascot and would be raised by their company, accompanying them on their travels through the Middle East. It would then be given official documents by the authorities making him a real soldier (hence the term Private) so as to enable him to travel with the company to the battle of Monte Cassino, where he would become a hero.After the war, Wojtek came to Scotland with the soldiers and, after being demobbed, had to be given to Edinburgh zoo.He was a huge, comical, tame and intelligent bear and had many hilarious adventures during his time with the Company.

DKK 93.00
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Tragedy & Challenge - Tom Brown - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Tragedy & Challenge - Tom Brown - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Having worked within the UK engineering industry for many years and chaired 15 companies, including stock market quoted, private equity backed, and university spin offs, Tom Brown offers a unique insight into the challenges facing engineering companies, as well as the impact this has on the economy, people’s working lives, and society. Tragedy & Challenge will appeal to readers interested in economics and politics, business management, investing, and our changing society – including those who enjoyed Evan Davis’s Made in Britain and Peter Marsh’s The New Industrial Revolution. This book examines existing data on UK manufacturing in order to demonstrate how badly our engineering has fared compared with international competitors, especially Germany. The author also recounts his varied early experiences in the industry from night shift manager to Managing Director and the life-changing lessons he gained from working in a German-speaking company. Tragedy & Challenge analyses the causes of the decline in UK engineering, considering its poor leadership, original analysis of the detrimental effects of government economic policy, and the destructive influence of the City including an insider’s uninhibited view of fund managers, analysts, and private equity. Tom Brown concludes that, while some decline was inevitable due to global factors, the example of Germany shows it did not need to be nearly so precipitate; some responsibility lies with management and unions, but ultimately poor governments, the City, and decaying social attitudes were to blame, and now Brexit makes the prognosis even more daunting.

DKK 182.00
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100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths - Emma Smith - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths - Emma Smith - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Maths ability on entry to school is the strongest predictor of later academic achievement, double that of literacy skills, and simply saying more number words to babies increases their maths ability. What else have scientists, psychologists and professors learned about maths for babies? - Babies seem to be born with an amazing number sense: understanding shapes in the womb, being aware of quantities at seven hours old, calculating probability at six months old, and doing addition and subtraction at nine months old. - The best time to introduce maths is infancy. By the time children enter school there is already a significant gap in maths skills, this gap increases over time. - A parent’s attitude shapes a child’s attitude. Parents have the power to teach their babies that learning maths can be either something to feel anxious about or something to enjoy. - Babies can learn maths while boosting all other areas of development. For example, movement is boosted while teaching geometry positional language, literacy is boosted while reading a “number” book, and bonding is boosted by giving a baby undivided attention while teaching maths to him or her. - Maths is important. Babies will use maths every day for the rest of their lives. What about the impact of gender, culture, videos, sleep, diet—even the type of pushchair you buy? 100 Ways in 100 Days to Teach Your Baby Maths holds the answers.

DKK 141.00
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Brexit - The Benefit of Hindsight - Peace E. Ani - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Brexit - The Benefit of Hindsight - Peace E. Ani - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Three years after the UK’s momentous EU referendum vote, multiple Brexit Secretaries and three rejected deals, the question remains: what exactly does the UK want? The UK’s financial services sector is deemed to be one of the most vulnerable to the impact of Brexit, and the consequential effect on the rest of the UK economy could be devastating. Despite benefitting from access to the Single Market, a significant proportion of the financial services industry voted ‘leave’. But rather than being driven by anti-immigration or xenophobic sentiments, research indicates it was based on a rational assessment of the cost and benefit of the EU membership, influenced by the post-crisis regulatory reform. The industry is disproportionally impacted by Brexit due to the divergence of business models within the industry, based on the relative reliance on domestic, international or European trade. Brexit – The Benefit of Hindsight analyses a number of economic indicators to answer the unanswerable question: what does the UK want? Will the UK economy suffer in the uncertainty surrounding our future or will we emerge stronger?

DKK 113.00
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A Private and Convenient Place - Michael G T Stokes - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

A Private and Convenient Place - Michael G T Stokes - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

‘Blackmail by Michael Stokes is an unputdownable romp... the outstanding trial of the femme fatale is enough of a cliffhanger to leave the reader gagging for the next novel.” – Felicity Gerry QC, The Times In this sequel to the successful Blackmail , Julia Hamilton, the scheming girlfriend of recently convicted robber, Michael Doyle is to stand trial for her role in the kidnapping of Judge Campion’s wife and the unsuccessful attempt to blackmail the judge into dismissing the case against Doyle. The prosecution depends on the evidence of the accomplice and police informer, Derick Duffy. Until, that is, the gang’s leader and ex-IRA commandant, Joseph Hanlon, himself serving a lengthy sentence in a maximum security prison, surprisingly agrees to give evidence against Julia. But what’s in it for Joseph? If he is telling the truth, Julia will likely be convicted. And what of Doyle? Does he have a part to play, or has Julia abandoned him for someone else, someone more useful? Skilled barristers on each side press witnesses in their attempts to find the truth, but not all is as it seems in this tantalizing sequel to Blackmail . Readers are taken inside the jury room where Julia’s fate will be decided and all is revealed as the storyline twists to an astonishing and shattering conclusion.

DKK 110.00
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UK Healthcare is in Crisis - David Sellu - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

UK Healthcare is in Crisis - David Sellu - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

About 10,000 patients die unnecessarily and thousands more are harmed in other ways from healthcare mishaps every year. Many of these harms are from ingrained systemic errors but instead of fixing them, the healthcare service, including the NHS, blames and punishes individuals when things go wrong. The service is blighted by sexism, racism, and other forms of discrimination and turns a blind eye to bullying and harassment by a small but significant minority. The service does not like its weaknesses and problems exposed and whistleblowers are persecuted. Our NHS is failing when compared to similar services in developed countries. Millions of people are waiting for tests or treatment, and many will die before they get to the top of this queue. For many of those who make it there, it will be too late, as their conditions will have progressed. Of course, the service is starved of investment but rectifying this alone will not suffice. We have to start by repairing the internal culture and must implement programs that enable us to learn from failures.

DKK 119.00
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Who’s Looking After Who? - Jamie C Mcneish - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Who’s Looking After Who? - Jamie C Mcneish - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Who’s looking after who? is set in the West Coast town of Millport on The Isle of Cumbrae in Scotland. The Coyle family’s life spirals into chaos after the birth of their baby on the kitchen floor of their tea shop, delivered by their naive four-year-old son. The extraordinary baby possesses the mind of an adult, unleashing a torrent of dark wit and critiques upon his family. Amidst the pandemonium, their two red-setter dogs give birth to fourteen puppies, adding to the frenzy of the late 1970’s family romp, where health and safety concerns were scarce. The Coyles embark on a comical quest for babysitters, leading to bizarre and dangerous situations for their baby, in this darkly humorous tale of raising a family while running a business during a carefree era.

DKK 120.00
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Who Killed Oswald Grey? - Jon Berry - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Who Killed Oswald Grey? - Jon Berry - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

In November 1962, 20-year-old Oswald Augustus Grey, an immigrant from Jamaica who had been in the UK for less than two years, became the last man to be hanged in Birmingham’s Winson Green prison. There were only five further executions in the UK before capital punishment ended in 1965. His trial lasted fewer than five working days and his subsequent appeal less than an hour. There were 24 weeks between the crime and the execution. The law failed Oswald Grey. He was treated as disposable and was the victim of careless advocacy and the unchallenged racism of his times. His story has been largely forgotten: this book puts that right.

DKK 152.00
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Architecture York - John Brooke Fieldhouse - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Architecture York - John Brooke Fieldhouse - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

You live in York UK, you’re thinking of paying a visit, or you just like buildings? Then this new work from John Brooke Fieldhouse is a must have! It’s a guide book. But it’s completely different, it’s not what you’d expect from the city of Vikings, Romans, the medieval, the Civil War, the Georgians, and the Victorians. It’s about the twentieth century and later – right up to 2018. Its buildings – public and private - how they’re designed, engineered, lit, heated, ventilated...and not just buildings, there are 130 plus items, including bridges, a flood barrier, details like windows, seating, handrails, landscaping, paving, all the things we touch when we move through a city, the things that make us feel good or bad. It’s 260 pages, 360 colour photographs, fifteen pages of indexes and an introduction, consisting of unsentimental and unvarnished answers by the author to over 30 questions on the book and York. Answering questions and always asking more. It’s not just the past, it’s all about the present and the future. We spend most of our lives in buildings, they are art, science, psychology and politics so it’s essential we all have our own view about them.

DKK 141.00
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Stefan Bucovineanul-Voloseniuc – Just Imagine - Stefan Voloseniuc - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Stefan Bucovineanul-Voloseniuc – Just Imagine - Stefan Voloseniuc - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Just Imagine is the inspirational story of Stefan Voloseniuc ’s journey from a very deprived background in a remote Romanian village, to becoming a successful businessman, entrepreneur, and philanthropist in London. It describes the challenges he faced growing up in the closing years of Nicolae Ceausescu’s brutal, controlling, and corrupt communist Romania and the path he chose to create a new life for himself and his family. Stefan is one of approximately 7 million Romanians now living abroad, including an estimated 1.4 million in the UK, and he hopes this book may also help to inspire them and show how through hard work, dedication, and imagination it is possible to build a new life away from Romania. Just Imagine is a phrase Stefan uses every day and he passionately believes it is this positive and creative approach that has enabled a shy child from Romania to launch his own businesses, chat with King Charles III at Windsor Castle, meet the Prime Minister of the UK, become a sponsor of the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and create a series of successful companies that employ many hundreds of people in the UK and Romania.

DKK 120.00
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Sugar, Gravy, Pleasure - Pete Elderkin - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Sugar, Gravy, Pleasure - Pete Elderkin - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Growing up in Peterborough, voted the ‘ worst place to live in England & the UK’ , certainly had its challenges. But a love for Nick Cave’s band and a passion for indie music launched the author, Pete Elderkin, on a series of extraordinary events while following a dream to reach that holy grail for rock groups, a BBC Radio One John Peel session. Sugar, Gravy, Pleasure details the ups and downs of being in the wrong place and time while trying to DJ and run an exciting alternative music club in what seemed a hostile, provincial environment. This is a wry, self-deprecating memoir set over eleven years and telling the true story of The Sugar Club and how it, improbably, became one of the longest running nightclubs in the UK. It captures, with first-hand contributors, the fun experiences and social history of the unique 1990s and 2000s, when the Grunge and Britpop scenes came from out of nowhere to the forefront of the UK music scene. " I loved it. A beautiful, big-hearted book. Sugar, Gravy, Pleasure is a love letter to a lost time when music was at the centre of the universe." Tony Parsons, journalist, broadcaster and author.

DKK 120.00
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Tomorrow is Another Life - Nick Thripp - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Tomorrow is Another Life - Nick Thripp - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Tomorrow is Another Life is a thrilling, satirical adventure story, which takes you into an African wonderland called Mutabe where nothing makes sense and the truth reinvents itself daily, if not more often. Leon, a 30 year old Mutabese refrigeration engineer, was brought to the UK as a baby by his aid worker parents. He’s just been left by his partner. He’s broke. He’s lost his job, he’s lost his furniture and he’s about to lose his flat. A knock on the door heralds an unexpected visitor; the immaculately dressed Mr Bankole. Bankole tells Leon that his adoptive parents were British agents who kidnapped him, and that he is, in fact, the grandson of Chief Onagaku, leader of the Tribal Lands, and first president of Mutabe after independence from the British. Now Mutabe is suffering under the yoke of the despotic Oblanga. The people are primed to revolt and free themselves. All they need is a figurehead. All they need is Leon. Bankole asks Leon to accompany him back to Mutabe without delay. Bankole doesn’t know it, but there could be a problem. Leon is gay and homosexuality is a capital offence in Mutabe.

DKK 124.00
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The Lay of the Sacred Mountains - Bernat Saenz Sala - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

The Lay of the Sacred Mountains - Bernat Saenz Sala - Bog - Troubador Publishing - Plusbog.dk

A young woman, Idunn, and a young man, Heimdar, make a perilous journey to initially help gather momentum for their religion, The Old Faith. Along the way, they are joined by others, including a minstrel, a young warrior who is testing her sexual boundaries, and a loyal wolf. Their journey takes an unexpected detour when Idunn discovers her mother, previously thought dead, is alive. Meanwhile, the kings in neighbouring lands decide to attack over the differences between The New Faith and The Old Faith. Yet, the subtext is clear; this is not only about religion but also about greed and power for one side and freedom of expression for the other.

DKK 130.00
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